Speakers

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Gareth Ainsworth Head of Cloud and Hosting Platforms at HSBC Wholesale

Gareth has over 25 Years’ experience in many disciplines in IT across most sectors. He is a specialist in business and technology, with a focus in Financial Services and Corporate Banking technology needs and solutions. His career covers many areas of the IT service chain and disciplines and now he sits in the c-suite leading organizational change with a specialism for emerging technologies and applying these to simplify IT services and to solve complex business challenges. In his current role, he manages cloud and hosting operations within the Wholesale division of HSBC, a global Tier 1 bank in over 60 countries with all of the integration challenges that creates.

Ruben Aleman Solutions Architect, Inditex

Ruben Aleman has worked in IT and systems administration for more than a decade, with strongt Linux knowledge acquired. In his current role as Solutions Architect, he manages the architecture of the entire e-commerce Linux Platform, looking for the best solutions for the web delivery challenges that a global, high traffic, and performance company like Inditex face.

Gabriella Angiolillo Director, Product Management, Kong

As Director of Product Management at Kong, Gabriella leads product strategy and execution across the Konnect Platform, Kong Manager, decK, and Koko offerings. Gabriella joined Kong with a decade of experience in building, launching, and growing market-leading enterprise SaaS products. Previously, Gabriella held leadership roles at Workday (NYSE: WDAY).

Dervis Avdic Engineering Manager, IKEA

Dervis Avdic is an Engineering Manager at IKEA at Ingka Group Digital. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer at Tetra Pak and IKEA, and as Product Owner at IKEA. He resides in Helsingborg, Sweden.

Harry Bagdi Principal Engineer, Kong Inc

Harry works on Kong Gateway and most recently has been involved in the redesign of Kong gateway’s control-plane - Koko. Previously, he led the development and launch of Kong’s Kubernetes products and integrations. Twitter @hbagdi42.

Mike Beaumont Software Engineer, Mesh, Kong

Mike is a software engineer working on all things service mesh at Kong.

Jenn Bergstrom Senior Technical Director, Parsons X

Jenn Bergstrom is a Parsons Fellow with nearly 20 years of software and cloud engineering, business development, and leadership experience. Her continuous curiosity has led her to develop expertise in subjects ranging from multi-cloud solutions architecture, DevSecOps, and Chaos Engineering to Organizational Change and Project Management. In her role as Senior Technical Director for Parsons X, Jenn designs and implements innovative solutions to complex problems and uses creative tactics such as gamification to build a culture of innovation within her teams.

Sven Bernhardt Chief Integration Evangelist / Chief Architect, OPITZ Consulting Deutschland GmbH

Sven is a technology enthusiast and works for OPITZ CONSULTING in Germany as Chief Architect as part of the Corporate Development team. Within his role, he’s responsible for managing the technology portfolio and developing Best Practices and Guidelines. In addition, Sven supports his colleagues with implementing Software solutions for Customers. Sven acts as regular speaker on various conferences, talking about technology or architecture topics, and is also sharing his thoughts and experiences by writing articles and blog posts.

Benjamin Bertow Senior Technical Lead & Product Owner, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH

Benjamin is product owner, project manager and devops engineer at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. He is experienced with data transfer technology in projects ranging from old SOAP monoliths to REST microservices. For the past 2+ years he worked on various Mercedes-Benz API management topics, and is the product owner of a service offering Kong gateway features to various internal projects.

Dale Buckingham Sr. Curriculum Developer, Kong

Dale is first and foremost a continuous learner that accidentally 17 years ago discovered his passion for delivering and creating technical education. He has designed, created, and delivered technical education in several primary areas from data integration to big data to machine learning to cloud native technologies. He utilizes his over 40 years of IT experience to give a ‘real-world’ context to the learning experiences he provides.

Tetyana Butenko Product Owner of API Management and Governance, Raiffeisen Bank International

Tetyana is leading a multi-national and multi-cultural team in big Banking Group. For a few years, RBI is going through the process of IT architecture transformation and API Management and Governance is the crucial part of it. Tetyana’s version of the great workplace is not pizza lunches, great gyms, fancy office premises and frequent parties. Her version of the great workplace is a dream team that has common goals, trust, freedom and responsibility. And for sure which works on building up future-proof enterprise IT systems and organizations.

Lokesh Chechani Sr CX Engineer, Kong

Lokesh Chechani is a Software Engineer with a a great interest in cloud-native technology and architecture. As an API enthusiast, he tries to keep things simple and minimal. Lokesh loves programming and reading tech books. In his personal time, you can find him playing cricket and running - two hobbies he never gets bored of.

Samuele Chiocca Senior Solutions Engineer, SIGHUP s.r.l.

Samuele Chiocca is a Senior Solutions Engineer at SIGHUP and a Kong Champion. Cloud-native technologies are his main area of expertise, focusing on Kubernetes and Kong. Samuele's goal is to simplify companies' journey in the cloud connectivity world by developing and advising on Kong and Kuma based solutions.

Sean Chow Sr. Product Manager, Kong

Senior Product manager with a focus on developer tools and cloud computing. Currently working as a Product Manager on the Kubernetes team at Kong and previously, Datadog. Sean currently lives in NYC and in his spare time he enjoys working out and DJing!

Luca Cogliandro Manager - System Support, Sky Italy

Luca graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Reggio Calabria. He collaborates across the technology and product teams to build agile and DevOps processes into the delivery of new/enhanced products. Luca works with application Middleware teams to build, maintain, and document the development, testing, staging and production environments. He is an Evangelist on DevOps best practices to continue improving software delivery and release processes for the principal project IT Transformation to renewal Layer Middleware.

Guanlan Dai Director of Engineering, Kong

Guanlan is an engineering leader at Kong where he leads multiple global teams and drives the end-to-end development for Kong’s open-source API Gateway product, powering trillions of API transactions for leading organizations globally. Prior to Kong, he led the Edge Platform team at Cloudflare. Guanlan has built and optimized high-performance SaaS infrastructures, including CDN, WAF, and Cache, which are used by one of the world’s largest networks. He was also a major contributor to the OpenResty project.

Brian Demers Developer Advocate, Okta

Brian Demers is a Developer Advocate at Okta and a PMC member for the Apache Shiro project. He spends much of his day contributing to OSS projects in the form of writing code, tutorials, blogs, and answering questions. Along with typical software development, Brian also has a passion for fast builds and automation. Away from the keyboard, Brian is a beekeeper and can likely be found playing board games. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/briandemers.

e Dunham DevOps, Developer Advocate, Okta

The best technical solutions come from both applying the right tools and targeting the right problems. From a background in DevOps, systems administration, and SRE, edunham has recently taken the leap into developer advocacy to spread information about what tools and approaches fit which problems well, and to gather real-world feedback that helps Okta improve its products. Outside of work, you'll often find them anonymously automating annoyingly manual workflows in their favorite online games, gardening, and getting interrogated about whether they have or are food by a flock of chickens and a cat.

Âraš Eftexâri Senior Curriculum Developer at Kong

Âraš Eftexâri Senior Curriculum Developer Kong Vancouver, BC, Canada email:arash@konghq.com twitter/github: gigaprimatus Previously at Cental1, Broadcom, CA Technologies, IBM Interested in: APIs, Microservices, reading, cycling and everything else

Giora Engel Co-Founder and CEO, Neosec

Giora is a serial entrepreneur. Prior to founding Neosec, he was VP Product Management at Palo Alto Networks after his first company LightCyber was acquired. He served as an officer in the elite technological unit in the Israel Defense Forces, where he pioneered the development of cyber technologies. He is a recognized innovator in cyber-security, cyber-warfare and behavioral analytics, and holds several patents. Giora serves as chair of the Fraud Control Task Force at FDX.

Ignacio Fernández Moreno Software Architect, Inditex

Ignacio is a software architect with focus on Microservice and Event Driven architectures. In his role at Inditex, he leads the teams responsible for the main Platform Integration solutions, designed to minimize the integration efforts for bussiness teams given the challenges a Microservice architecture imposes, specially in such a challenging environment as a global, high traffic and performance critical company. Specifically, these products range from the API Gateway, the API Portal, the Authorization System and the Event Platform used by Inditex business teams to serve our huge user base.

John Fitzpatrick Principal Curriculum Developer, Kong

John is a Principal Curriculum Developer at Kong. Before joining Kong he was Education Lead at Sysdig, and spent 6 years at Chef before that. Even further back, at the dawn of the Cloud era, he worked at RightScale Inc. John co-organises the ‘DevOps Belfast’ meetup group. It has >2000 members and meets monthly with talks on a range of topics. He’s also one the co-founders of ‘DevOpsDays Galway’, and is on the review panel for two books on Chef. He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is married to Colette, has a daughter called Jane, and a dog.

Davide Franceschino Senior Business Unit Manager, Scrum Master and Product Owner at Reply

Danny Freese Sr. Partner Engineer, Kong

Danny has a background in backend app development, automation and Kubernetes. She has spent the last 5 years guiding clients to containerize, and shift to a cloud mindset.

Viktor Gamov Principal Developer Advocate, Kong

Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, a cloud connectivity company. Viktor has comprehensive expertise in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping architects and developers design and develop low latency, scalable, and highly available systems. He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM, and DevOps topics. He's regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He co-authored books O'Reilly's «Enterprise Web Development» and Manning's «Apache Kafka® in Action.» He blogs at http://gamov.io and co-hosts KongCast https://pod.link/kongcast. Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts there about gym life, food, open-source, and Kong and Cloud.

Jeremy Glassenberg Product Leader, APIs, Docusign

Jeremy is an experienced Product leader of over 14 years with a specialty in managing developer platforms and APIs at successful startups like Box and Tradeshift, building successful Platform and Product organizations from the ground up. He managed and expanded developer platforms to communities of tens of thousands of developers, and led high-profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google. Jeremy is an advisor and mentor to startups and accelerators such as Alchemist, Acceleprise, Techstars, and Heavybit for Product and API strategy. He is also a Lead Instructor at Product School and author of components to Product School's core curriculum.

Jen Goodison CTO Engineering Platforms, HSBC

Jen Goodison is CTO of HSBC’s engineering platforms within the Wealth & Personal Banking business. With over two decades of technology experience, Jen’s current role is focussed on the modernisation of engineering platforms and APIs, and the embedding of risk and resiliency practice from design to implementation. Jen lives in Sheffield, on the edge of the UK’s beautiful Peak District with her two children.

Fedor Gorin Senior Director of Engineering, ATP

Fedor Gorin is a Senior Director of Engineering at ATP. Fedor has a background in Data Engineering and Cloud Architecture. His experience with big data highlights his passion for data science and ongoing technology transformations. Being in leadership, Fedor spreads the knowledge and energy towards the engineering teams.

Gang Guo Product Manager, Kong

A seasoned architect on API Gateway, Middleware and Cloud Native Architecture, working in Kong Inc as a Product Manager.

Peggy Guyott Sr. Customer Experience Manager

Peggy is a Customer Success Professional with over 19 years of experience in customer success, account management and sales across a variety of markets and products.She loves partnering with customers to help solve complex business problems by providing practical solutions and support. Being a proactive and team-oriented leader, Peggy is able to foster a culture of customer centricity and improve the customer experience across every touch-point in the customer journey.

Tyler Hall Software Engineer Architect, ATP

Tyler Hall is a Software Architect at ATP. Tyler is an experienced full-stack developer, with a special interest in Distributed Systems and Cloud Architecture. Tyler is passionate about implementing practical solutions that help to integrate enterprise applications at scale.

Fabian Hardt Solution Architect, OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH

Fabian Hardt works as Solution Architect at OPITZ CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH. He has many years of project experience in analytics projects and deals with modern architectures for the increased requirements in the age of digitization.

John Harris Principal Product Manager (Service Mesh), Kong

John is currently the product manager for Kong Mesh and Kuma OSS at Kong. Previously he was a field engineer and architect specializing in Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies, helping customers on their modernization journey. Prior to Kong he held similar roles at Docker, Heptio & VMware, and is the co-author of Production Kubernetes (O'Reilly, March 2021).

Rob Hayes Lead API Engineer, Cargill, Inc

David Lewis-Frazier and Rob Hayes are software engineers with Cargill and help to bring modern software development practices to the enterprise as part of the Cargill Data Function. They currently manage the Cargill API Platform (CAPI) to be used to serve Cargill’s internal and external customers globally.

Michael Heap Director of Product, Kong

A product minded engineer with a passion for helping people and over a decade of commercial experience. Michael has been a conference speaker since 2009 (with over 70 presentations to date), is a recognized open source contributor as a member of the GitHub Stars programme and is on the business governance board for the OpenAPI initiative.

John Heckler Senior Engineering Leader, Kroger

Technology leader with over 30 years of experience in software architecture and platform development helping organizations make the Digital Transformation.

Christian Heidenreich Product Manager, Kong

Christian Heidenreich is a Sr Product Manager at Kong, a cloud connectivity company. Christian is a technology enthusiast with proven records in enterprise software development, engineering, Pre-Sales activities for an international clientele, and product management. He enjoys working closely with customers to identify and hand-in-hand with engineering, solve complex problems. As a Product Manager at Kong, his current focus is to build out a strategy that delivers actionable, insightful, or valuable insights into data in motion flowing through the Kong ecosystem (e.g. traffic data).

Samantha Hepler Group Product Manager - SaaS Apps, Kong Inc

A tactical, innovative product leader with a proven track record in product development, digital transformation, and technology optimization. Whether building a product from ideation, monetizing an existing solution, or managing enterprise-wide integration projects, Samantha drives sustainable, scalable, user-centered development. Today Samantha is a group product manager working on Kong Konnect with a specific focus on Service Hub, Developer Portal and Analytics.

Christian Hernandez Head of Developer Experience and Community Management, Codefresh

Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. Lately he's been focusing on Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud Native architecture, and GitOps practices.

Ted Hessing Head of API Platforms, Vanguard

Ted Hessing has worked in IT for 20+ years, with experience ranging from Software Engineer, to Six Sigma Black Belt/Project Manager. In his current role, he leads teams who are responsible for the performance and management of Vanguard's large API infrastructure.

Patrick Huck Senior Computer Systems Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Patrick holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (Dipl. Phys.) in Physics from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and obtained his Ph.D. (Dr. phil. nat.) in high-energy nuclear physics from the Goethe-University in Frankfurt based on his work as a member of the large international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Since 2014, he's been a core member of the Materials Project (https://materialsproject.org) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is now the Senior Computer Systems Engineer on the project in charge of its Cloud & Scientific Data Architecture.

Gregory Hunt Staff Engineer, Particle Health

Gregory is a Staff Engineer driving innovation through modern software architectural practices in the field Healthcare IT. Greg has specialized in application interoperability mostly working in the healthcare and transportation field, both in the public and private sector. Greg is a pioneer of HL7 FHIR and bringing modern tooling and best practices into areas that are still primarily run on legacy technology.

Chad Ingle Senior Curriculum Developer, Kong

Over 23 years in the tech industry specializing in public cloud security, infrastructure, and configuration as code. Kong Product Education development and delivery.

Nic Jackson Developer Advocate, HashiCorp

Nic Jackson is a developer advocate and polyglot programmer working for HashiCorp, and the author of “Building Microservices in Go” and "Service Mesh Patterns". In his spare time, Nic coaches and mentors at Coder Dojo teaches at Women Who Go and GoBridge, speaks and evangelizes good coding practice, process, and technique, and works to raise money for a charity he runs with his wife.

Smriti Jaggi Sr. Product Manager, Kong Konnect

Smriti is a Sr. product Manager at Kong Inc focusing on Konnect Core capabilities to deliver a cloud native API management platform to her customers. She is enthusiastic about providing a seamless developer experience in this era of cloud digital transformation. Her background includes providing end to end Bot Solutions for different industry verticals as well as developing new data driven products to enhance security and reduce friction for end users.

Thomas Joham Head of Realtime Integration Center of Excellence, Raiffeisen Bank International AG

Thomas Joham is a leader with vision, who leads big IT transformations at scale. He transitioned from a software development expert to an Expert Enterprise Architect with focus on real time integration. He has 10+ years’ experience in IT and Management and traveled over 30 Countries in his career. He lives with his family in Vienna Austria.

Andrew Kew Principal Engineer, QuadCorps

Andrew is a highly passionate technologist with over 15 valuable years experience in building server side and cloud applications. Having spent the majority of his time in the Financial Services domain, his meritocratic rise to CTO of an Algorithmic Trading firm allowed him to not only steer the business from a technology standpoint, but build robust and scalable trading algorithms. His mantra is “right first time”, thus ensuring the projects or clients he is involved in are left in a better place than they were before he arrived.

Anna Khan General Partner, CRV

Anna Khan is a General Partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV) where she invests across the software ecosystem. She has led investments in breakout companies like Zip, Northspyre, Workstream, Cord, and Storyboard. Prior to CRV, Anna spent five years at Bessemer Venture Partners. She sourced investments in Intercom, NewVoiceMedia (acquired by Vonage for $350M), and Zylo — and was involved with Adaptive Insights (acquired by Workday for $1.5B), Intacct (acquired by SAGE for $850M), and SendGrid (acquired by Twilio for $3B). Anna is also Founder and CEO of Launch X, an accelerator that helps female founders learn how to raise capital for their business. Anna is a Forbes 30 under 30 Venture Capital Winner and has authored several industry-leading papers on the cloud ecosystem — namely the State of the Cloud, which reaches over 100k people.

Mark Minseok Kim Software Engineer, Insomnia, Kong

Mark Minseok is a software engineer working on the Insomnia product to help engineering teams and individuals collaborate with each other.

Ross Kukulinski Sr. Director of Product Management, Kong Inc

Ross is a Sr. Director of Product Management at Kong Inc, leading the Kong Konnect and Kong Mesh product families. Ross has spent the last decade specializing in business-aligned open source, cloud native technologies, and developer experiences. Prior to his current role, Ross led technical product strategy for Kubernetes at VMware Tanzu via the Heptio.com acquisition. Outside of work, Ross loves mentoring future product leaders, exploring the pacific northwest, and playing soccer with his kids.

Hayden Lam Sr. Product Manager, Konnect Platform, Kong

Hayden is currently one of the product managers for Konnect Platform and decK CLI. His prior experience advocating for a large scale SaaS platform and spending a good chunk of the last year building out the Konnect platform makes him one of the go-to experts for Konnect.

David Lewis-Frazier Senior API Engineer, Cargill, Inc

Cara Li Director of Software Engineering, ATP

Cara Li is a Director of Software Engineering at ATP. Cara has a background in Master Data Management and Data Integrations. Her experience in data management highlights her ability to integrate/link multiple products, companies together. Being a female leader in technology, Cara brings new ideas, better collaboration and encouraging work environment for all the engineering.

Michael Ludden VP of Marketing @ Permit.io

Michael Ludden is a technologist, futurist and lover of disruptive developer platforms / all things generally nerdy. Currently VP of Marketing at Permit.io, he is an accomplished developer facing product, devrel, community and marketing leader with experience at companies small and large such as Google, IBM, Samsung and Bose. More recently he has favored building at early stage startups, and has become an experienced worldwide invited conference speaker. A former Bay Area native, Michael lives in Austin TX with his wife and kids and is excited to join Kong Summit to give this talk.

Yann Léger Co-Founder, Koyeb

Yann is the Co-Founder of Koyeb, a company delivering a next-generation serverless platform. Yann spent the last 10 years building cloud service providers in the infrastructure space from scratch. Passionate about cloud computing, he has an excellent understanding of the industry and all the underlying infrastructure, from data centers to the software stack running on hypervisors. After building Scaleway, which started as a serverfull IaaS provider with BareMetal ARM servers, Yann realized that the future was serverless :)

Denis Magda Head of DevRel, Yugabyte

Denis Magda has spent half of his career working on distributed systems, applications, and databases. His experience spans from the development of distributed database engines and high-performance applications to training and education on the topic of distributed and cloud computing. Presently, Denis runs the Developer Relations team at Yugabyte and serves a PMC Member for Apache Ignite. He started his professional career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he led a Java development group and worked on evangelism efforts.

Augusto Marietti CEO & President, Co-Founder, Kong

Augusto Marietti is the CEO and co-founder of Kong. Originally from Rome, Italy, Marietti at the age of 19, founded MemboxX, one of the first data storage services in Europe in early 2007. In 2009, Marietti co-founded Kong in a garage in Milan, Italy. The company quickly moved to San Francisco, USA, and raised $1.6M in funding from prominent institutional investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Index Ventures and individuals including Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. Marietti holds a BSc in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan.

Anuj Mathur Tech Builder, CRED

Anuj has a passion to build highly scalable payment services while raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence. He helps the Backend engineering teams at CRED, to build financial well-being solutions for India's most credit worthy individuals.

Charly Molter Engineering Manager, Mesh, Kong

Charly is the engineering manager of the mesh team @ Kong where his team contributes to Kuma and KongMesh

Wanny Morellato Senior Director of Engineering, Kong

I am working on Kong Konnect, Kong Cloud services and platform.

Kat Morgan Developer Advocate, Kong

Kat Morgan is a Developer Advocate at Kong Inc. She is experienced in the delivery and support of enterprise Linux infrastructure, Kubernetes infrastructure and middleware, and DevOps practices. She is a host of Kubevirt (a CNCF Sandbox Project) community meetings, a member of the Puluminaries community, and a founding member of UOR Framework.

Hisham Muhammad Software Engineer, WasmX, Kong

Hisham Muhammad is part of the WasmX team at Kong. A long-time contributor to the Kong Gateway, Hisham is a former member of the Kong Gateway Core Team. He has created various open source projects including LuaRocks and htop, and holds a PhD in Computer Science on the field of programming languages from PUC-Rio.

Ash Osborne Principal Customer Experience Architect, Kong

Principal customer experience architect at Kong

Marco Palladino CTO and Co-Founder, Kong

Marco Palladino is an inventor, software developer and Internet entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and CTO of Kong, the most widely adopted open source API platform. Besides being a core maintainer, Marco is currently responsible for the design and delivery of the Kong products, while also providing the technical thought leadership around APIs and microservices within Kong and the external community. Marco was also the co-founder of Mashape, which started in 2010 and is today the largest API marketplace in the world.

Jonas Persson Enterprise Architect at Group CIO, SEB

30+ years experience in complex high-scale enterprise systems for Bank and Finance sector. Driving the API architecture at SEB.

Henri Pietila Senior Software Engineer Dev Portal, Kong

Henri Pietila is full-stack software engineer at Kong working on the Konnect Developer Portal. Henri is passionate about building comprehensive tools focused on improving the developer experience. Previously, he worked on the on-prem version of the Developer Portal product. In his free time, he enjoys experimenting with custom IoT devices and DIY projects.

Nick Rapier Group Manager of Product Management - Platforms, Kroger

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-rapier-91b92958/

Juliette Rizkallah CMO, Kong

Debora Rocha Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Debora Rocha is a Partner Solutions Architect at AWS. She has a degree in Information Technology that she earned in Brazil, and International Business from the University of Wisconsin. Previously she worked as a contractor for the Federal Government as a system analyst supporting the implementation of a large compensation system. She currently lives in Honolulu, HI and in her spare time she loves to spend time with her two children and family.

Casie Ropski Technical Scrum Master, Vanguard

(she/her) Technical scrum master / project manager in Vanguard's Chief Technology Office. Project manager for Vanguard's "Women in IT" Experiences group. Enthusiasm enthusiast.

Siddharth Saikumar Lead Software Engineer, Lowes

A passionate and inquisitive engineer with 11 years of IT experience encompassing API development, security and platform development. Working now at Lowe's as a Lead Software Engineer managing hybrid cloud-native infrastructure and gateway for the entire enterprise.

Dominik Schmid Senior Technical Lead & Product Owner, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH

Dominik has a thorough knowledge in various technical fields including programming of special purpose machines in the field of aviation as well as designing and developing highly scalable systems for video streaming. At Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH (a subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz Group AG) Dominik started as a programmer for the popular in-house "Gateway as a Service" platform leveraging the power of Kong. He is currently developing the platform as well as leading his team (together with his colleague Benjamin Bertow) as a Senior Technical Lead and Product Owner to expand on this successful product inside the Mercedes-Benz Group AG.

Gianmarco Sciortino Enterprise Architect, Live Reply

Gianmarco graduated in Computer Science at the University of Turin. After an initial experience in the start-ups field, he began his career as IT consultant in Live Reply as a DevOps and Cloud Architect Engineer. Thanks to a strong technological passion, Gianmarco assumed the leadership of various infrastructure and automation projects on different technological stacks, building a broad and high-level technical profile. His expertise involves designing complex architecture and driving digital transformation, adopting best of breed technologies like Kong.

Reza Shafii VP of Product, Kong

Reza Shafii is a seasoned product executive in the infrastructure and middleware space. His early career was as a software engineer at Nortel Networks as well as a technical consultant at BEA Systems. During this time, Reza fell in love with Product Management and has since led Product at a number of successful enterprises, including the first Product Management hire at MuleSoft, VP of product at CoreOS, and through acquisition, GM and VP of platform services for OpenShift at Red Hat. In his spare time, Reza still gravitates to writing code for fun and clears his head by taking on the beautiful bike roads of the Bay area.

Anuj Sharma Sr Container Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Anuj is a container specialist solution architect at Amazon Web Services and has been building on AWS for over 7 years. He has hands-on industry experience for over 15 years in application and infrastructure development. When not developing, he likes to hike around Mt Rainer.

Div Shekhar Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Div Shekhar is a Solutions Architect focused on providing technical expertise to AWS Partners who are trying to differentiate themselves within the APN. He works with AWS Partners to make sure their offerings meet the technical bar required to pass various kinds of validations within the AWS Partner Org. Div also spends about 50% of his time developing full-stack applications to enhance internal processes and make services provided by AWS more available to consumers.

Claudio Spadaccini Head of Integration, Sky Italy

Claudio Spadaccini has been working in the world of integration for over 12 years, gaining his experience in various industries, with multiple products and technologies. In his role as Head of Integration for Sky Italy he is responsible for leading the integration team in a major transformation process on API Management, redefining and evolving Sky's Enterprise Service Bus Integration architecture into a modern Kong-based AWS microservices cloud architecture.

Daliya Spasova Community Manager, Kong

Daliya is passionate about building tech communities and interacting with people. She currently works as a community manager at Kong. While working in tech marketing, her experience varies between program management for multinational companies and startups with specialisation in community engagement and development.

Ragunath Sudalaimuthu Lead Software Engineer, Lowes

Ragunath has 13+ years of experience in IT space mainly focused on enabling Enterprise API gateway platform across different sectors like Banking, Insurance and Retail. At present, he is working at Lowe's where he has helped have transformed from Legacy standalone to Cloud native enterprise API gateway.

Lino Telera Cloud Architect, InfoCert S.p.A.

Lino Telera is a Cloud Architect focused on Infrastructure Automation and DevOps strategies at InfoCert S.p.A. After earning the first VMware certification he joined VMware Users Group Italy in 2015, and he attended the first VMware {code} hackathon in 2016. Lino is a TechFieldDay delegate and he likes to spend his spare time authoring his blog https://blog.linoproject.net, running the Italian podcast “ThePipelineGuys” and teaching code to kids with CoderDojo initiatives. Recently he started teaching at the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore - CR

Madan Thangavelu Director of Engineering, Uber

Madan is a tech enthusiast with over a decade of industry experience building scalable systems. he has been actively working in areas of web services, SaaS and machine learning. He is always excited about technologies that make an impact on society. In his current role, Madan leads the fulfillment, fares & config systems that power all Uber trips globally.

Yves Van Grimberge Product Owner - squad Foundation API, Engie

Yves Van Grimberge is the currently the product owner of the Foundation API Squad within Engie Marketing & Sales Belgium. As an IT professional he worked in various roles within Engie Marketing & Sales Belgium (Project Manager, Service Delivery Manager, Product Owner). In these roles he transformed various legacy applications into modern cloud native applications. In his private life Yves is often found in the Alps where he is a passionate skier & cyclist.

Dan Wagner Global Product Management Leader, TransUnion

Dan Wagner is a VP of Product Management at TransUnion. In this role, Dan leads the company’s strategy for global API management and micro-services aimed at driving rapid innovation and developing products at scale. Dan has over 15 years of experience leading product teams, and brings extensive strategic and global enablement expertise to accelerate the development of TransUnion’s market leading solutions.

Mike Wottle Enterprise Architect, Vanguard

Sunny Xia Senior Product Manager Dev Portal, Kong

Sunny Xia is the senior product manager focused on API consumption experiences at Kong. For more than six years, she has worked with enterprises to transfer legacy systems to modern digital platforms with APIs as the core part of the strategy. Sunny has brought her passion for API development and empathy to developers to the Konnect product portfolio.

Gruce the Gorilla